yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnthnmc01:
Help Please - Computer/Odin won't recognize phone in Download Mode

I understand several users have had download mode issues similar to mine related to the ICS/AOSP roms/kernels. I have tried all the suggestions I understood, but still can't get the computer(s) to recognize the phone when plugged in usb.

The background on this was that I was coming from a previous GALNET Miui release (a December or January release) and was attempting to flash the new "CodeNameAndroid 1.3.3" as I did with my other cappy. From within CWM, I did a full wipe and then I flashed the latest ICY Glitch Beta kernel. Immediately after that finished, CWM said that the back button was disabled (or similar, and as a result all buttons did the back feature which allowed me to do nothing, so I had to pull battery). When rebooting the phone, it just got stuck at the ATT screen. Luckily since I've soft bricked my phone before, I used my lifesaver jig to put me in Download mode. However at this point, when plugged into a computer, it will not recognize phone. Now I've tried: using different cables, different computers, reinstalling drivers, rebooting computers, trying different usb ports. I tried downloading and installing Nexus S drivers since I read to try that, but no luck. I tried to find the basic google drivers, but don't know if I got them or not or how to install them as I didn't see an exe. Windows doesn't see any difference at all when you plug in USB, not eve uknown device. And on top of that, my other cappy that works, will recognize perfectly off the same computers and drivers running ICS (I haven't tried it from download mode yet). So does anyone have any recommendations, any knowledge of what could be going on here? Any help would be great. Thanks!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
First thing the "back button disabled" probably means power= back home=enter. Regardless Glitch's reccovery setting= up home=down back=back search=enter by default.

Second Check that your other phone with ICSSGS is detected by your computer on Download Mode on the very SAME usb port you tried with other phone. If it isn't detected then your drivers are effed up. If it is then I sniff bad usb port on your phone (possibly)

If you ever used Heimdall that effs up usb ports for ODIN. Always use a Mobo USB port (rear usb port on desktop) and run odin as admin to be sure.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xenocide83:
USB Issue

Which drivers are being used for this ROM? I cannot seem to get USB to recognize the device as writable. The drives (Internal and External) will mount just fine and I can transfer from the device but get a write-protected error when trying to place files on either of the drives. All versions of ICS have been giving me this problem. I am currently on StockPlus RC4.2 and connecting to a Windows XP machine.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Stock+ isn't ICSSGS. Absolutely no support on XDA for stock+
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] purav17:
Hi, I wanted to know if anybody knows what is the best modem to use in NYC area. I have used multiple modems but with no success.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BloodSkin:
id like to note that this didnt work for me but i later noticed the .lfs folder didnt exist so it had nothing to read, which was more than likely my problem. ill try again when my cappy gets back from josh.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
How do I remove the obnoxious Google search bar that's taking up half my screen on my launcher?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cvcduty:
Well... your best bet would be to try a different launcher. It takes a bit of the screen area on the top and it doesn't bother me but then again, I don't really seem to use this much also.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Yeah I figured it was built in to the stock launcher. Bad idea Google. Anyway is sync not working? I use friendcaster instead of the Facebook app and I can't get it to sync with my contacts. Under account settings it shows sync is off on friendcaster and when I tap it there is nothing to turn on
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnthnmc01:
Ok, so I tried my other working cappy in download mode on both computers, same cable, all usb ports and it is recognized just fine by computer and Odin. So how in the world did flashing ICY Glitch on my other cappy mess it up to where computers can't recognize the device? (Now, it will charge the device when plugged in;I do get the battery charge icon, so it definetly gets current and the cappy will charge,but thats it). And of course I can't get to recovery mode, only download mode via my jig. Now, question regarding that: Is there a way to force recovery mode from jig? Is there a combo of pins on my jig I can touch to force recovery like I do for download mode? Also, is download mode a bootloader? Was it possible that my icy glitch flash messed the bootloaders up, and if that is the case, is there any way to reflash them if computers can't recognize device? I'm on my last straws here.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Ok my install is fried, I wanna go back to a kk4 rom. I happened to have Saurom on my internal sd card, but it won't install, how do I get back? HELP!!!!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daskanda:
There's no way a cwm flash touches bootloaders those only get touched with odin with a package that has bootloaders...... What was the last package with bootloaders that you flashed? ... If it was a gb bootloaders package you should be able to get back into recovery with 3 button combo...... What i would do if i was in your situation is use odin in download mode and flash back to stock then flash kernel with cwm built in using odin and then flash the ics package
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daskanda:
Sorry quoted myself somehow o.O
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Why won't CWM flash my freaking rom back now? Every time that stupid google logo is on the screen. I flashed a new kernal why the hell wouldn't it boot from it. I am freaking out. As of now I am softbricked untill I can figure out how in the hell to get back to stock! EDIT: Ok Now that I"m done freaking out I got my phone in download mode and I'm going to attempt to use Odin to flash it back to stock.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinese burn:
You can try Apex Launcher. You´ll find it in the XDA Forum.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Speaking of launchers, I switched to ADW Ex and set it as my default launcher. It was on the next boot where it hung at the boot animation screen. Is that what could of caused the problem?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
I don't think so but it always a possibility. You have to ODIN back to stock, it has to include a .pit file
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
Yeah I'm back on stock now, used the odin 1-click without bootloaders for kk4. Kind of depressing, I really liked what I saw of ICS. Also frustrating becasue I was working hard to get it taylored to my needs, and spent probably 4 hours of my day on this project only to be sitting here working on getting back to stock.

EDIT: So I just remembered what happened exactly. The phone locked up for whatever reason so I felt it was time to clear all cache. I cleared the dalvik and the cache partition, and rebooted, and the phone wouldn't go past the boot animation. it just ran the boot animation forever. So I rebooted and same thing. So I re-installed the rom, without wiping and same thing. So I gave up and well here I am back on kk4. What happened exactly? What went wrong?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnthnmc01:
Well that's my issue, the button combo's don't work. I have to use my jig to get me to download mode, BUT no computer nor Odon will recognize the phone, so I can't flash anything.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garyth:
when in download mode and plugged into computer, check device manager to make sure it's not marked with a yellow ! if it is, windows got confused on the driver and you'll have to re-do them.

also, whimpy usb ports or bad cable can do this so be sure to check those as well. use only factory cable to be safe
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnthnmc01:
Yea ive tried all of that on different computers. Device manager sees nothing. I might see if our cappy guru adam outler has some suggestions like making a new jig with the different resistances to put it into diff modes besides download. Maybe i can find one to put me recovery. I saw posts where some other phones installed icy glitch and same happened to them, it might just be bricked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garyth:
just out of curiosity, when it is at the animation, did you try adb reboot recovery?

I did that once and was surprised when it worked. My test phone has no power button and I didn't feel like flashing stock from download mode just to fix a boot issue.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jnthnmc01:
No i havent tried that, but i assume your computer recognized your phone for adb when you are at att screen? if so that still want work for me as computers wont recognize it. The physical usb connection is clean also and phone does charge, but just no data recognition.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garyth:
well, at the time I did that (and now that I think about it) odin did not 'see' it in download mode for flashing. But I was also having lots of driver issues at the time as well .. too many phones and too many roms - windows got confused :D

Unless I am mistaken, and the guru's can correct me, download mode is not the same mode as adb access which uses usb debugging ?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
I cleared dalvik cache after the lockup btw...would that cause the phone to not boot? I've done it a million times on other roms, didn't think much about it on this one.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Garyth:
nothing is impossible, but i doubt that it was the cause. wiping cache is a pretty safe procedure. I wouldn't hesitate trying the rom again I find it very stable for daily use and the best battery life of any rom I've used in months.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cor-master:
I honestly probably wouldn't of been so quick to give up on it, but I was out of time. It was like 7pm when that happened and I had to be up at 3:30 for work, so I just threw gingerbread back on and restored with titanium backup and called it a day. the more I read it sounds like titanium backup was the cause of the issues, read that it doesn't get along with ICS too well, which I noticed. Had to run it about 4 times to get it to restore everything, and it actually locked up in the process of restoring. Kept hanging on apps.

What I saw was great, before the lockup and the inability to boot, very stable, very fast, only bugs I noticed were the low storage error and the occasional log screen lag (listed under known issues)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SPE926:
I searched an couldn't find anything, is there a way to set a custom lock screen wallpaper? I couldn't find anything.

Ice Cream Sandwich eating Captivate checking in......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daskanda:
Not yet..... Maybe in the future..... Maybe not on this rom tho as it's pure aosp
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SPE926:
Ah, I figured as much, just wanted to make sure. Too bad, that would make this ROM perfect for me.

Ice Cream Sandwich eating Captivate checking in......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capocaccia:
I believe there are lock screen apps out there that will allow for custom lock screen papers. I can't recall the name of the one I used though. But this does mean you will have another process running on the CPU.

Sent from my Captivate running Android 4.0.3 ICS
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leetnoobie:
bootscreen

So when I tried to flash to this rom originally, I did a bad flash so I flashed back to stock, but I had used an AT&T stock rom so I ended up with an AT&T boot screen. Then I flashed to this rom and for some reason now I have 2 AT&T boot screens. One comes one, screen goes black then the other one comes on, then to the colourful screen. Is there a way to get rid of one of them? and also I find that I do not get the kernel boot screen (I'm sorry if it's not from the kernel, but I'm referring to the cyanogenmod logo you see on boot) no matter which rom I flash. Any thoughts?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ganaa1221:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1266172

This works all the time for me. I mean even odin not recognizing the device. /in download mode/

Also one thing u have to do before install zip from sd card is wipe cache, factory reset, go to mount storage -> format system.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SPE926:
I know there's other apps, I bought widget locker awhile ago but I like the stock lock screen and would rather not have another process running. I just want to use a different wallpaper with the stock lock screen. But alas it can't be done, at least not at the moment.

Ice Cream Sandwich eating Captivate checking in......
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cndgraham:
Keyboard

I am having an issue with the keyboard - I use Swiftkey X and it takes a long time (noticeably long) to recognize inputs when required. It is worse on Chrome than on Messaging, but on both the keyboard will come up, and not recognize any inputs for a few seconds.

I am on 4.2.

Thanks
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cvcduty:
My wife's Cappy does exactly the same thing... but mine shows the kernel splash screen just fine... Her phone went from Stock 2.2 rooted to CM7 to ICSSGS... mine took few other trips along the way... maybe that is the difference.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BitteredBro:
Hi.

If I change the dpi value to 160, when I make a call the call take place but the phone application force closes when the screen showing the contact photo should appear. It does happen with WP7 dialer and OneDialer too. It doesn't happen with values like 182, 200 or the stock 240.

It's there a way to mod the apk or something to make it work? I really like the way the phone looks on these resolution.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navinn95:
Hey guys, how do i go from this system back to the official gingerbread? Thank you so much.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daskanda:
Use Odin to go back to stock and flash whichever gb rom you want using cwm
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cndgraham:
I had an issue last night where the keyboard wouldn't clear when a call came in. I was writing a text and the phone started to ring - it went to the answer screen but I couldn't answer it because the keyboard was in the way. I locked and then unlocked the phone and the keyboard went away and I was able to answer it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDM STi:
Greeting...

Been installed ICSSGS R4.2 on my i896 (Rogers version) for few days and started noticing problem with wifi every once a while.... :(

Phone charged up, left idle, then noticed both wifi and signal icons turned grey and not sure how long. No wifi connection (as Facebook kept loading, whatsapp mesg did not go out) until I turned off wifi and turned back on.

I am aware there were complains on wifi reception on R4.1 and wififix was provided for those with R4.1. I did not know the issue my phone has is somehow similar (or even closer) to the one in 4.1.

Does anyone else have the same wifi issue with 4.2?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kong00:
I have swiftkey too, but I believe the keyboard is not yet optimized for ics. Just use the default ics keyboard. It is faster and works pretty well.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grey Ghost:
Has anybody else noticed a portion of apps they could access on the market with GB now incompatible on SGSICS? I assume someone would have to plonk around with the build.prop to get that all sorted out?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bw987:
lock & tap sounds

Overall my ICSGS experience has bee fantastic! I've only noticed one thing that doesn't really bother me but I'd like to know if its something I should be expecting to work.

I don't have any lock sound or "click" sound (like when you touch the screen to select menus, etc.). I do have both the "Touch sounds" and "Screen lock sound" settings selected so I think I should be getting those clicks. Has anyone else noticed this?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDM STi:
I do have the same problem too. I have those sounds enabled in the setting as well. I realized the problem did not appear in the first few days after I was on ICS. Few days... I think few days later, those sounds were gone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] capocaccia:
I also have the same problem sharing contacts.

Sent from my Captivate running Android 4.0.3 ICS
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdata101:
RC 4.2 TV out problem

Hi guis,

I am on RC 4.2 , Icy glitch V14 kernel. TV out is working, but when I connected the phone to the TV, there is a huge lag during the mp4 play. If the phone is disconnected, everything works perfect. Do you have any ideas what is going on or possible fix (mp4 codec or...)?

Best regards
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JDM STi:
Greeting... bump this up as this still bothers me for day 5 now...

Been installed ICSSGS R4.2 on my i896 (Rogers version) for 6 day now and started noticing problem with wifi every once a while.... :(

Phone charged up, left idle, then noticed both wifi and signal icons turned grey and not sure how long. No wifi connection (as Facebook kept loading, whatsapp mesg did not go out) until I turned off wifi and turned back on.

I am aware there were complains on wifi reception on R4.1 and wififix was provided for those with R4.1. I did not know the issue my phone has is somehow similar (or even closer) to the one in 4.1.

Does anyone else have the same wifi issue with 4.2? Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Update: installed IcyGlitch v14 B5, seemed like the wifi icon grey out issue is gone now... need few more days to confirm

Thank you so much.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jekostas:
Quick problem:

Using V4.2, absolutely fine for the most part. However, I switched to the Icy Glitch B5 Kernel and got a sleep-of-death without fail every time after using Wi-Fi with Didle.

Is there a fix? For now I've gone back to Icy Glitch B3 which works fine (and yes, I'd post this in dev but I can't).

Edit: Forgot to add: Yes, tried high leakage INT voltage and it didn't help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daskanda:
If you read the glitch thread you will find out that it's a known issue with b5..... And for the record this rom isn't supported by glitch kennel.... It may work but problems might be possible
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Dilde is crap regardless. Most places won't see a difference anyways
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jekostas:
I saw nothing mentioned about it being a Didle-only problem - only that WiFi was causing SOD's. For me, with B5 it's not a problem without deep idle on.

Thanks. I'll guess I'll try B5 again and just leave it off for now.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonieryan:
Just flashed this on a Galaxy Captivate i896 (Rogers) from stock Gingerbread. Absolutely love this ROM! Thanks for all the great work.

The only thing that's missing for me is that the capacitive buttons on the i896 don't light up when the screen is touched. If I'm using the phone in a somewhat dark room then it's impossible to know which button is menu, home, back, and search. The stock Rogers ROMs always lit up the buttons when the screen was touched.

Can this feature be retrofitted with a patch or file modification? Any ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeathicusF:
"Low on space" notification

I've been running the ICSSGS rom for a few weeks now with no problems until now.

Over the last couple of days I've been getting a "Low on space - Phone storage space is getting low" notification. When I touch the notification, it takes me to the manage apps dialog where it lists all the apps I have (which really isn't that many).

At the bottom of that screen it says my internal storage is 440MB used and 1.4GB free. That's only a total of ~2GB!

If I connect my phone to my PC and connect USB storage, Windows reports my phone storage has "10.5GB free of 13.0 GB." My external SD card has "2.38GB free of 7.5 GB."

What gives??
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
Please search this has been talked about over and over. Move some apps to your external SD card.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeathicusF:
I searched this thread but found nothing (which could be my fault).

I hope that's not the solution. I don't really want to do that.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Very well known issue. Possible solution stated in OP. As said moving to sd or deleting would also work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeathicusF:
Ok, I did some searching outside this thread and found a lot of people having the problem. Faulty assumption #1 was that the problem was with this rom rather than ICS in general. Seems there's a /datadata partition where apps are installed and it's limited to ~2GB?

I did not want to move the apps to my external SD card which is what I assumed would happen if I used the "Move to SD card" option. Wasn't that the behavior in GB? So I was thinking the remaining ~10GB of space on the internal card was inaccessible to ICS. Faulty assumption #2.

So I took out my external SD card and the option is still there and I can still move the apps. So I'm guessing the "SD Card" is the remaining internal SD card space beyond what ICS partitions for itself? So what happens if I have the external SD card in and move an app to the SD Card... does it go to the internal or external? I'll need to test that.

Yeah, I'm just rambling now. Thanks for the help.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrsubway:
Media Scanner

Just installed the Rom. However, it doesn't see any files on my external SD and the media scanner isn't running. The files are still there. Help!

Edit. Okay. The gallery sees the pics, but the OI file viewer is what doesn't work.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tartutic07:
yes me also facing the same problem..

one more request ...is it possible to get the same menu options as we had till GB , in the drop down status bar in ICS also ? now it only displays the Date / time and the settings icon..
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bw987:
For notification buttons, try installing widgetsoid. Then create & modify a widget. If you set the widget type to notification, you end up with toggles you can set just like you're used to.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrsubway:
I had gotten the keyboard to stop vibrating and make noise instead. Now it will only vibrate no matter what I do. How do you turn this off?

Update: NM. Got it. ICS takes getting used to. :/
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrsubway:
Are there themes/battery icons for this ROM yet? Awesome ROM. :D:D:D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Is the Nushor Kernel, still, the best way to flash ICS? If so, where can I find it?

I've been trying to flash this ROM and keep getting Status 7 errors. I've tried both from stock Gingerbread (i897uckk4, one click) and from another ICS rom (Fusion) and got nowhere. I've searched endlessly and keep hitting brick walls.

Please, HELP!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
You used RC4.x? Shouldn't happen.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucasBrazil1984:
Thanks for the reply. I tried to install 'ICS_4.0.3_MR1-RC4.1_Captivate.zip' via CWM.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Well that's odd. Try RC4.2 and if it doesn't work try using a leaked gb with book's or corn kernel. That's how I did it before.